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I create quality, affordable, project-specific, supplemental materials connecting people with literature. As an educator and fellow author, I am skilled in navigating the needs of the educational and literary worlds.

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My debut picture book Girls with Guts: The Road to Breaking Barriers and Bashing Records (Charlesbridge, 2019) is the tenacious history of the female athlete from the first Olympic Games to present day, including the passage of Title IX.

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Jan 17 WHY COYOTES DON’T WEAR PANTS

Debbie Gonzales

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WHY COYOTES DON’T WEAR PANTS

Written by Tammy Cloutier

Illustrated by Alyssa Willey

Published by Tammy Cloutier

ISBN: 979-8987347102

Synopsis: Emma, an inquisitive child with a sense of humor, has a close encounter of the fur kind with a coyote. Rather than being afraid, she wonders why adults find coyotes so worrisome. Are sharp teeth and claws really an issue? WHY COYOTES DON’T WEAR PANTS is a fun story that celebrates the similarities and differences in the human and animal world.

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